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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2015 11:47:15 GMT 3
The first WOK that we will be discussing is Emotion. To give you a good introduction to it, I will have you look at some real life situations about emotion from the news. Choose one of the following articles (a different one from yesterday), read it in its entirety, and then respond to the knowledge questions. Your response should be at least two paragraphs in length. Post due by the end of the class period. _______________________ Facebook and personal well-being AoKs/WoKs: Emotion, human sciences KQs: Does social media interaction affect us in the same way as face-to-face interaction? To what extent do we gain a 'true' picture of other people's lives via social media? Does the internet reinforce relationships, or supplant them? Is virtual life replacing real life? Category: Article Link: www.bbc.com/news/technology-23709009Description: A new study suggests that using Facebook can lead to FOMO (feelings of missing out), and have a negative effect on one's sense of well-being. The article examines the reasons for this, as well as the wider implications of the way we're using social media. Source: BBC The literary cure AoKs/WoKs: Emotion, the arts, human sciences KQs: To what extent is mood dependent on the arts? What is the relationship between the arts and emotion? Category: Article Link: www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/18/novel-cure-elderkin-berthoud-reviewDescription: It is self-evident that listening to music, looking at a painting, or – in this case – reading a book, can change our mood. This article looks at the way in which literature helps to cure us of emotionally-related ailments, and can help to treat more serious cases of depression. Source: The Guardian Twitter as an emotional measure AoKs/WoKs: Emotion, human sciences, technology KQs: Is is possible to measure an entire country’s emotional state of being? Can social media be used as a way of gauging people’s emotions? Category: Article Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24001692Description: A new programme allows researchers to record and categorize Tweets sent by users of Twitter, and then compile them so they can be assessed according the mood of the person who posted them. The article looks at the possibilities of using this in order to judge the state of the whole country’s emotional state. Source: BBC |
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Post by abdulhadi aljeri on Feb 11, 2015 11:29:12 GMT 3
No it is not possible because you only can know about a small percentage of people, it is impossible to determine all the people's emotions in the state, you may know about some of them but not all. No social media can't be use to determine people's emotion because it doesn't really show the people's mood or emotion. People may be lieng about what their mood are. Social media may be a prove for some of the people but not a big number of them.
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Post by Abdulrahman Al-Eidy on Feb 11, 2015 11:39:57 GMT 3
Social media obviously does not affect us the same way as face to face interactions do. Real life are much more affective than social media and give us a better understanding of the person in front of us since we get to see how the person literally reacts and get to see there body language. From the way I look at it, I think that internet rienforces relationships since you can keep in touch with people that are far away from your place of residence. Virtual life has a really great impact on this generation but can never replace real life.
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Post by Abdullah Al Busaili on Feb 11, 2015 11:57:07 GMT 3
Arts is maybe the most connected factor to people's moods and emotions. From the songs that gets you pumped up for the gym to the sad painting that makes you cry, arts can change your mood in an instant, even a human being can't change them as good as the arts. This is so powerful that if you just opened a book every aspect of your emotional life can change in a split second, and you'll forget your entire life. Sometimes it could be very very helpful, but in the other hand it could be frustrating and will end sadly, it just depends.
It is simple, if you we're seeing an optimistic side of art you'll be happy, but if you saw a bad side of art it will take you down and surely could make you miserable. For example, listening to your best sound that was just played on the radio, will surely make your day. In the other hand, seeing a sad drawing with a kid dying, will make you cry like Niagara waterfalls. It also depend on the person, not only the art.
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Post by Abdullah Al Busaili on Feb 11, 2015 11:59:52 GMT 3
The literary cure
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Post by Ahmed AlMailam on Feb 11, 2015 12:05:56 GMT 3
Twitter as an Emotional Measure:
I believe that Twitter can measure an entire country's entire state. Millions of people tweet in a single day. It is easy to know the feelings and emotions of the people in a country if they were happy or sad with Twitter. It is not that accurate, but it can measure an entire country's emotional state.
Yes, I think so because people usually discuss certain topics in social media websites like Twitter. This will make people almost have same emotions. People discuss and share emotions in social media and also in real life. Emotions can be seen virtually, but not like real life.
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Post by yafea almansouri on Feb 13, 2015 4:42:42 GMT 3
yes it's possible to measure peoples way of thinking about a certain thing even an entire country. For example if a country is attacked or threatened from a another country, the people will start to worry and feel sort of afraid of their lives and their country. You can know most of people's thoughts when an problem happens that can affects them all. Like if a person who runs a country is bad to the country, the people would not love him. Yes,social media can be used to gauge people's emotions. Social media is a powerful way to get people's emotions and know them. It's know one of the easiest things that you can get news, videos, and images from, like Twitter,Instagram, Facebook, etc. so its obvious to know what people thinks about when the read or see something. |
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Post by Mubarak alsabah on Feb 14, 2015 20:11:36 GMT 3
No you can not possibly know a whole countries emotion on a specific think you can only know most of the emotion but not all of them. In order to know everyone's emotion you need to read their mind and social media can not do that. Social made can be a gauge of emotion but it will definitely not be a accurate one.
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Post by Yousef Al Mesri on Feb 14, 2015 20:34:45 GMT 3
Facebook has been studied that may ruin peoples lifes in the past. Making them feel unwanted to society, but why does this make them feel this way. I think that this has a role in jelosy. People see others people's lives on there face book and make them feel jealous. Because of this it makes people feel like they arnt important and makes them feel sad. But can Facebook be blamed because of this? That answer is based on opinion but alot of people will have different answers. I think that yes they can be blamed because they made the privacy either very private or not private to the public. This was all cuased because of facebook
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Post by Hisham AlEssa on Feb 15, 2015 21:39:33 GMT 3
The Facebook article.
1) Does social media interaction affect us in the same way as face-to-face interaction?
-Well using Facebook too much will make you get depressed and sad because they feel unwanted by the people around them and using the computer for too long around people (FOMO).
2) To what extent do we gain a 'true' picture of other people's lives via social media?
-Its very limited because the people on social media only show you what they want to show you. People on social media make themselves as perfect as possible that why they prefer meeting new people on social media than in real life. In real life you can see the flaws of someone but you can't really see that on social media if that person doesn't want to show it.
3) Does the internet reinforce relationships, or supplant them?
-The internet does reinforce relationships since it allows people to stay in touch and contact each other easily. Also to hide what you don't want the person you're talking to to know.
4) Is virtual life replacing real life?
-In a way it is depending on the person. Not everyone likes staying online some people like reality more than the virtual life. But yes because a lot of people just love the virtual life since they feel safe there.
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Post by Al-Khezzi عبدالله الخزي on Feb 15, 2015 22:43:50 GMT 3
Is is possible to measure an entire country’s emotional state of being? Can social media be used as a way of gauging people’s emotions?
I believe that not even the most advanced technology can measure an entire country's emotional state of being. People do not tend to tweet about what they feel. For instance, 99% of those who type in LOL do not actually laugh. Also, the word entire is huge it's extremely difficult to measure an entire country's state of being withour falsely generalizing. As stated before, social media can't and shouldn't be used as a way of measuring people's emotion because what is on the social media doesn't reflect the truth.
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Post by Abdulwahab Jumah on Feb 15, 2015 23:17:45 GMT 3
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Getting engaged to facebook affects people in a bad way and creates bad habbits. First, prople won't become social in real life and take the path of being social online. Secound, people will lack condifence. Third, depression will get in the way because of online romance. People would make themselves look the best and be the best on facebook opposing to real life. They could steel someone's pictures and pretend it's their's basically fake accounts. So facebook basically makes people get attached to it in a bad way.
As mentioned in the last paragraph yes relationships are created and 90% of those relationdhips in my perspective are fake. How is it possible getting to know someone online instead of real life. So it needs thinking before doing this relationship thing. Most people today prefer virtual life than real life for seviral reasons. They don't want to show themselves because their body or other reasons. So to them its better, but to me real life is much much better. To be honest it's even.
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Post by Abdullah Al-Shuaib on Feb 15, 2015 23:47:13 GMT 3
No, i dont think social media interaction affect us in the same way as to face to face interaction. I social media you don't know the person who you're talkin too. Maybe he is smart, maybe he is stupid, maybe he is just lying on you. But on face to face you'd know if he is smart or stupid and you'd know if hes lying or telling the truth.
I think via social media you'd know what people would like to watch or other things. Like for example i like to watch soccer matches, and via social media i would know whose team has the biggest fans. I think the internet reinforce relationships and can supplant them, it's just depends on how you use it. In some times the virtual life is replacing the real life or the opposite, but it just depends on the person and what he do.
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Post by Ali Alhammadi on Feb 17, 2015 10:29:05 GMT 3
Yes I believe that Twitter can measure a whole country's entire state. For example if their is a war the people they will tweet about war so in this point you can measure if they are afraid or how their conditions. It is easy to know the feelings and emotions of the people In Twitter. It is not that accurate, but it can measure an entire country's emotional state.
Yes, I think so because people always disscus or complain in twitter about something realted between them. This will make people almost have same emotions. People discuss and share emotions in social media and also in real life. Emotions can be seen virtually, but not like real life.
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Post by Mohammad Al Rasheedi on Mar 5, 2015 0:56:04 GMT 3
Twitter:
Its possible to measure and entire country's emotional state of being only if their was a country event such national day and every one would be happy. but it's not possible in most of the time, seeing that problems are widely spread over a country either small or big in size, knowing that everyone has his own mood and own emotion toward a problem or a great thing. social media can definitely be used to estimate people's emotions. in social media, no one is afraid of telling their feelings, since they can be anonymous. that is good because you can determine the number of people having the same emotion and others who do not,
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